ANALYTICS & INSIGHTS CONSULTING

Data Storytelling

Stories, Not Data, Inspire Action and Impact

Data alone doesn't inspire action—stories do. We turn your data into compelling narratives that drive clarity, confidence, and business impact.

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Turning complex data into actionable stories that engage and resonate with your audience

Your team has access to expert data storytelling coaching to drive more data-driven decisions and elevate your organization's analytics maturity

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Experience a Different Kind of Consultancy

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Your Experience with Us Matters

You’re the hero of this story. We’re here to offer our expertise, helping lay a foundation of sustained meaningful experiences for you and your customers. We also promise a bit of fun along the way.

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Impact Is Our Measure of Success

Your demonstrated success is rooted in our “Make Your Mark” purpose. The impact realized must be measurable, meaningful, unlock value, and set the stage for a brighter future. This is non-negotiable.

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Partnerships Are Forged

You need a partner that’s ready to carry the load and is accountable along every step of the journey. We wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Expertise, Trust, and Tenacity Work in Concert

You expect expertise. Trust and tenacity are harder to come by these days. Fortunately, we’ve been giving clients all three and unabashedly doing the hard things and getting our hands dirty since 1999.

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We Evolve Together, Creating Real Progress

Your victories inspire us. As you elevate customer experiences, we celebrate with you, keeping a keen eye on the next innovation, the next opportunity to grow. We’re with you every step of the way.

Data Storytelling Expertise & Impact

BlastX Consulting expertise turns scattered insights into strategic narratives. We bridge the gap between raw data and real action—helping teams craft stories that drive decisions, inspire confidence, and fuel growth.

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Stakeholder Alignment

Expertise: Developing and implementing a comprehensive framework to manage customer-centric data across digital platforms.

Impact: Ensuring customer data is secure, compliant, and aligned with business goals.

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Customer Journey Mapping

Expertise: Mapping customer journeys to identify critical touchpoints, data gaps, and opportunities for deeper analysis.

Impact: Ensures every key interaction is measured and optimized, providing a clear picture of customer behavior.

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Persona Development

Expertise: Developing rich, data-driven personas that add context to reporting and reveal behavioral patterns.

Impact: Turns abstract data into meaningful customer insights, enabling more targeted and effective decision-making.

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Strategic Dashboard Design

Expertise: Designing intuitive, single-source-of-truth dashboards that simplify complex data and fuel storytelling.

Impact: Prevents conflicting reports and establishes a unified foundation for data-driven discussions.

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Insight Synthesis & Pattern Recognition

Expertise: Connecting scattered data points to uncover hidden patterns and meaningful relationships.

Impact: Transforms fragmented findings into strategic narratives that inform smarter business decisions.

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Executive Communication

Expertise: Creating repeatable processes for turning complex analyses into clear, compelling executive-level insights.

Impact: Ensures data is presented with confidence, clarity, and impact—resonating with senior stakeholders.

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Insight Activation Workshop & Roadmap

Expertise: Translating data stories into structured action plans for optimization, personalization, and measurable growth.

Impact: Converts insights into concrete business initiatives, making data storytelling a catalyst for transformation.

Creating Positive Outcomes that Matter

30%

Increase in Decision-Making Accuracy

50%

Increase in Stakeholder Understanding

15%

Increase in Sales via Data-Driven Campaigns

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BlastX Consulting is one of those rare companies that does what they say they’re going to do—and they don’t beat around the bush. They don’t hesitate at the scale of any project, and they always find ways to make things work. If you want results, choose BlastX!

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Sharon Conner
Web & Content Special Projects Manager

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Experimentation Helps Visitors Find Their Vehicle Match and Drives a 29% Increase in Request a Quote Submissions

A national automotive brand sought to improve the digital experience for users looking to personalize their vehicle search.

How We Do It

Assess and Analyze

We analyze your current data practices, identifying key reports and dashboards to understand how you leverage your data assets.

Strategize and Optimize

We develop tailored recommendations to enhance your data culture and storytelling capabilities, focusing on organizational and data-specific improvements.

Implement and Elevate

We deliver customized data storytelling workshops for individuals, teams, or company-wide audiences, emphasizing key concepts and industry best practices.

Helping Clients Evolve

Experience the power of BlastX

Whether you need a complete data storytelling strategy or just a focused engagement, we offer workshops, audits, and advisory services to help you move beyond data overload. These compact services let you quickly experience the power of data-driven storytelling—eliminating noise, sharpening narratives, and turning insights into action.

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Ideation Workshops

Collaborative sessions to align teams, refine messaging, and create compelling, data-backed stories that inspire action.

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Audits

Expert assessments to identify gaps in data storytelling, eliminate inconsistencies, and ensure insights are clear, concise, and impactful.

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Advisory Services

Ongoing guidance to refine storytelling frameworks, improve executive communication, and ensure data narratives drive real business outcomes.

We have partnerships that ensure the right technologies are applied in the right way to create actionable insights that deliver value and impact

Trent Thayne

Consultant Spotlight

Trent Thayne

With more than five years of industry experience, Trent has collaborated with high-profile clients such as Nasdaq, Healthcare.gov, and the NBA. He specializes in crafting data strategies that enhance customer experiences on clients’ websites, utilizing tools and tactics like data capture and activation strategies, A/B testing, site analysis, and customer experience optimization. His efforts aim to gather insights that drive meaningful improvements and measurable results for his clients.

In 2025, Trent was honored as an Adobe Analytics Rockstar, a prestigious recognition awarded to top analytics experts. He showcased his expertise at Adobe Summit 2025, sharing cutting-edge strategies to help brands transform data into business impact. Trent holds certifications in Adobe Analytics and Customer Journey Analytics.

Beyond his professional achievements, Trent is a dedicated family man who enjoys traveling with his wife. He’s an avid Denver Broncos fan, a March Madness bracket master, and an enthusiastic snowboarder. Trent’s passion for analytics and zest for life make him a standout professional and an inspiring individual.

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Analytics & Insights Consulting Services

Experience BlastX and get more from your analytics efforts. Build your future analytics strategy. Discover the best path to actionable insights. Create data stories that bring life to your analytics. Together, we can make data analytics & insights your competitive advantage.

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Analytics Audit

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